“Motion,” replied Marat loftily.
“You have not spoken of the soul.”
“I have never come across it when I searched with my scalpel.”
“Because you searched the dead only.”
“Oh, I have probed living bodies.”
“But have met nothing more than in dead ones?”
“Yes, pain; you don’t call that the soul, do you?”
“Do you not believe in the soul?”
“I believe in it but I may call it the Moving Power, if I like.”
“Very well; all I ask is if you believe in the soul; it makes me happy to think so.”